Improved guaranteed access MAC protocol for HFC networks

Author

Schwendener, Rico

Author_Institution

Commun. Technol. Lab., Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

621

Lastpage

627

Abstract

The results of the performance evaluation of an improved medium access control (MAC) protocol for hybrid fibre coax (HFC) access networks are presented. The protocol provides quality of service (QoS) for asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) as well as for Internet protocol (IP) services. A dynamic, centralized control scheme based on polling is used to accommodate ATM traffic on multiple shared upstream channels of the HFC network. Different aspects of the guaranteed access MAC protocol are investigated by simulation. An improved polling slot distribution scheme is proposed and evaluated. It provides shorter bandwidth reservation delays than static polling

Keywords

access protocols; asynchronous transfer mode; centralised control; delays; hybrid fibre coax networks; packet switching; quality of service; telecommunication traffic; AROMA; ATM; ATM traffic; HFC networks; IP services; Internet protocol; QoS; asynchronous transfer mode; bandwidth reservation delay; dynamic centralized control; hybrid fibre coax access networks; improved guaranteed access MAC protocol; medium access control protocol; multiple shared upstream channels; performance evaluation; polling slot distribution; quality of service; simulation; Access protocols; Asynchronous transfer mode; Centralized control; Coaxial components; Communication system traffic control; Hybrid fiber coaxial cables; Media Access Protocol; Quality of service; Traffic control; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 2001. Proceedings. Sixth IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Hammamet

ISSN

1530-1346

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1177-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCC.2001.935440

Filename

935440